Music of The Slap leads Screen Music Awards
Antony Partos and Sonar Music, the team behind the music of The Slap have led the nominees for the Australian Guild of Screen Composers, announced this morning while Burning Man, Storm Surfers 3D, Santa’s Apprentice and Needle are the four nominees for feature film score.
The announcement:
Today we pay tribute to the leading lights of Australian screen composition with the announcement of nominees for the 2012 SCREEN MUSIC AWARDS. The event, to be held this year in Melbourne on Monday November 19th, is jointly staged by APRA (Australasian Performing Right Association) and the AGSC (Australian Guild of Screen Composers). It is the only Australian event where the music and screen industry gather to celebrate excellence in the composition of music for film and television.
Across twelve awards categories APRA and the AGSC are today proud to recognise 61 composers, and 40 works as representing the best in Australian screen composition for 2012. Among the nominees are some of the country’s most respected screen composers including Lisa Gerrard, Burkhard Dallwitz, Antony Partos, Bryony Marks, Stephen Rae, Richard Tognetti, David Bridie, Roger Mason, Nerida Tyson-Chew, Michael Yezerski and many more.